Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anyone else.
It's a dangerous business going out your front door.
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be.
I never vote for anyone; I always vote against.
Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves.